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Daniel Pearl

1963 - 2002

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Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal. On January 23, 2002, he was kidnapped by Islamist militants while he was on his way to what he had expected would be an interview with Pakistani religious cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani in the city of Karachi. Pearl had moved to Mumbai, India, upon taking up a regional posting by his newspaper and later entered Pakistan to cover the war on terror, which was launched by the United States in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Pearl has received more than 4,088,658 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Daniel Pearl is the 5,770th most popular writer (down from 4,698th in 2019), the 8,921st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,797th in 2019) and the 684th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.1M

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  • 45.02

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Political Science
Offers a collection of fifty of the best stories written by Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and brutally murdered by Islamic extremists while investigating a story in Pakistan.
2002
The Family, Law & Society: Cases & Materials
Domestic relations, Family policy
19832 / 5

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Daniel Pearl ranks 5,770 out of 7,302. Before him are Vincenzo Consolo, Aleksandr Chakovsky, Shahrnush Parsipur, Javed Akhtar, Julian Symons, and Ulrich Plenzdorf. After him are Nigella Lawson, Irmtraud Morgner, Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov, Jhumpa Lahiri, Florian Zeller, and Mirvarid Dilbazi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Daniel Pearl ranks 379. Before him are Sergey Kozlov, Aleksandr Domogarov, Federico Moccia, Karl Lauterbach, Jan Mølby, and Thomas Brezina. After him are Candan Erçetin, Laura Flores, Mark McGwire, Oleh Kuznetsov, Slobodan Dubajić, and Zhu Jianhua. Among people deceased in 2002, Daniel Pearl ranks 282. Before him are Kees Mijnders, Vladimir Vasyutin, Lily Carlstedt, Regīna Ezera, Ruth Williams Khama, and José Hierro. After him are Katya Paskaleva, Bill Bruce, Erna Bogen-Bogáti, Geoffrey Crossley, Hellmuth Marx, and Jovdat Hajiyev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Pearl ranks 8,921 out of 20,380. Before him are James Cotton (1935), Marie Osborne Yeats (1911), Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919), Robert S. Langer (1948), Alice Marble (1913), and Eddie Floyd (1937). After him are Dick Clark (1929), Anita Bryant (1940), Steve Wynn (1942), Steve Miner (1951), Eleanor Garatti (1909), and Walter Becker (1950).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Daniel Pearl ranks 684. Before him are James E. Gunn (1923), Jack McDevitt (1935), Robert Bly (1926), Ann Rule (1931), Gardner Dozois (1947), and Diana Der Hovanessian (1934). After him are Steven Saylor (1956), Avram Davidson (1923), Edward Abbey (1927), Iris Chang (1968), Sarah Orne Jewett (1849), and Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850).

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